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> Samsung has 20% of the market and a lot more of the high end market. Going with "not Google" means a lot of users no longer using Google Play Store and servic

• close04 6y ago
  That's the point I made in the comment. Having no apps will shoot even good OSes in the foot. This being said all Samsung needs is for an antitrust investigation to break the exclusivity clause. Samsung doesn't need to drop Android, they need to be able to sell phones with other OSes. Tizen probably fits the bill for low-end, cheap phones. With the exclusivity clause in place Samsung would have to bridge the canyon between the current Tizen ecosystem and where Samsung would want it in one step. Removing the limitation just gives them the chance to take it one step at a time with building their ecosystem (not a pleasant thought looking at the state of their software but hey...).
  • notyourday 6y ago
    I would argue that it is not possible to slowly built that ecosystem. Samsung apps are crap and popular apps that people want create no motivation from developers to support yet another platform. That's why the Windows Phone failed -- even though Microsoft offered shops with reasonably popular apps both money and placement to make them available in their store at the end the cost of supporting another platform was too high.